For the last 8 years I’ve ridden a hand-me-down mountain bike that I acquired from an ex-boyfriend... It was a youth boy bike from the early 2000s and he had used it as a teenager and then grown out of it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It might be stretch to even say that I “rode” it because the truth is I only actually took it on dirt a handful of times... rock climbing was more my MO. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Last spring backcountry invited me on a fun adventure in Utah which included a mountain bike adventure on some rad 2020 mountain bikes and I was blown away by how much the technology has shifted in the last 20 years. I knew then and there I’d need to upgrade my bike one day soon. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As most of you know my original plan was to be hiking the PCT this summer but when that plan folded in on itself with COVID I started thinking about how I’d spend this summer instead. Naturally, I found myself dreaming about that new mountain bike... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m used to reading tech specs of whatever I’m buying and using them...